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What's Cool in Steel What's Cool in MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION AUGUST 2012 What’s Cool Cool What’s in Cool Tea House Inner Peace in a Floating Box THE TYPICAL AMERICAN HOME ADDITION might include an add-on room to the back or side of a house, or even an additional floor. Something like, say, a detached, floating medita- tion and performance space that evokes a Japanese lantern is probably not as common. But there’s one in Bethesda, Md. The Tea House, designed by David Jameson, Inc., is made from bronze, glass and steel. Situated in a wooded residential backyard in this suburb of Washington, D.C., the structure serves as a tea room, mediation space and stage for the family’s recitals (multiple members of the family are musicians). As visitors approach the Tea House from the main house, they must walk around the entire structure and are funneled through a curated pro- cession space between strands of bamboo—the intent is to cleanse the mind and prepare one to enter the room—to gain access at the opposite end, via a 4-in.-thick wood door. The 12-ft x 16-ft room is supported by a diamond-shaped Vierendeel truss, which is suspended from two steel moment frames with HSS3x3 hangers. The structure, which uses 1.5 tons of steel in all, was designed to accom- modate a 40-psf residential floor load and 90-mph wind loads. The floor and ceiling framing is made What's Cool in from HSS of various sizes, and the moment frame is made from W18 beams and W12 columns. The most challenging part of the structural design, performed by Linton Engineering, was to limit lateral deflection (to prevent damage to archi- tectural finishes) while also achieving torsional stability of the steel frame with only one point of structural support at the base of the structure. This was accomplished by developing a series of triangu- lar HSS trusses that cantilevered from an interior concrete pier, which was hidden from view beneath the structure. A supplemental layer of HSS fram- ing was welded to the trusses to create a platform to support the floors and link with the HSS hang- ers, which supported the four corners of the Tea House. The design of the structure was governed by the lateral deflections that occurred under the orthogonal wind load cases. Linton Engineering Paul Warchol Paul Warchol AUGUST 2012 MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION What’s Cool Cool What’s in Cool Olympic Tower Spiraling Above London BY SUNNY OH, EXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, ARCELORMITTAL THE OLYMPIC MOTTO is “Swifter, Higher, Stronger.” And one of the many representations of this motto at London’s 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games takes shape in the form of a 376-ft-tall (114.5 m) spiraling red steel sculpture that dominates the East London skyline and offers visitors panoramic views of the city. The sculpture, the ArcelorMittal Orbit, will house a viewing platform, create 50 new jobs and is expected to generate £10 million ($15.5 million) each year in revenue, continuing the Olympic legacy after the Games close. It’s the tallest sculpture in Britain and harnesses steel sourced from every continent where ArcelorMittal has operations. (As a Tier 2 sponsor of the Games, ArcelorMittal donated £19.6 million [$30.7 million] and the 2,000 tons of steel to create the sculpture.) Sitting between the Stadium and the Aquatics Centre, it will serve as a beacon of Olympic Park during the Games (and then Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, as the area will be known after the Games). Construction took 18 months. Taller than Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty, the design is the largest artistic commission in the world, and was con- ceived and designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond. Kapoor, known as one of the world’s leading artists, has been recognized for his use of rich pigment and imposing yet popular works, such as the Cloud Gate in Chicago’s Mil- lennium Park (better known as “The Bean”) and his recent show at the Royal Academy, the most successful exhibition ever presented by a contemporary artist in London. Balmond is well known for his innovative work on some of the greatest contemporary buildings in the world, such as the CCTV building in Beijing, as well as many Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commissions (visit www. serpentinegallery.org for more information). “Anish and I were conscious from the beginning that the ArcelorMittal Orbit would be a lasting legacy to the city, and so we wanted to stretch the language of the icon as far as we could go,” said Balmond. “The Orbit is a hybrid, a network of art and structure, and its dynamic is the non- linear. You read into it multiple narratives in space.” The monument’s steel construction required state-of- the-art engineering and architectural techniques that can withstand London’s weather as well as serve millions of visitors. “The ArcelorMittal Orbit could only be built in steel, to give the minimum thickness and the maximum strength,” explained Balmond. “I didn’t consider any other material because you couldn’t make this coiling structure with anything else.” MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION AUGUST 2012 Facts about the ArcelorMittal Orbit ➤ It is the tallest sculpture in the U.K. ➤ The structure is 22 m (72 ft) taller than the Statue of Liberty. ➤ If it was a vertical tower (with all the loops flattened out), it would be taller than the Eiffel Tower. ➤ Around 35,000 bolts and 19,000 liters (about 5,019 gallons) of paint were used. ➤ On a clear day, visitors to the Orbit will be able to see more than 20 miles from the viewing platform. ➤ Four ArcelorMittal employees will carry the Olympic flame during the torch relay to launch London 2012. ➤ Forty-seven carefully chosen ArcelorMittal employ- ees will form part of the 70,000-strong volunteer team. These “Games Makers” will support a range of Olympic and Paralympic events. Photos: ArcelorMittal Visitors will be able to reach the top of the struc- ture via elevator, although they will be encouraged to walk down the spiral staircase, which has 455 steps and has been designed to enable the guests to expe- rience the feeling that they are orbiting around the structure as they descend it. “I am absolutely delighted that construction is now complete and I would like to thank the project team for making this possible and for their work on what is technically a very challenging project,” said Kapoor. “I am looking forward to the Olympics when visitors to the Park will be able to go up the Orbit for the first time, and I am delighted that members of the public will be able to interact with the work in this way.” After the Olympic and Paralympic Games and following a period of transformation, the Orbit will serve as a visitor attraction, with ticketed viewing from the observation decks and a compelling venue for private functions. It will be able to accommo- date around 5,000 visitors a day, with the potential to attract around one million people during its first year of operation. It will have the capacity to accom- modate between 400–600 visitors per hour, including full wheelchair access. The Orbit will light up East London with its 250 color spotlights. Each can be individually controlled to produce a stunning digital combination of static and animated effects, including a 15-minute moving light show every evening of the Games. AUGUST 2012 MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION What’s Cool Cool What’s in Cool Olympic Bridge Creative Design, Champion Performance BY HUGH CORRIGAN, CIVIL ENGINEER, ATKINS, LONDON 5 Built ON A BROWNFIELD SITE ripe for rehabilitation, the The 18-ft-wide (5.5-m) steel deck consists of two 22 ∕8-in.- new Olympic Park on London’s northeast side is sporting a wide by 11¾-in.-deep (550-mm by 300-mm) edge box sec- whole new infrastructure this summer. Millions of visitors are tions with transversely spanning “T” ribs welded to the edge expected between late July and early September for the Lon- boxes at 21¼-in. (540-mm) centers to form part of the U-frame don 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and 23 new bridges restraining system for the arch members. The edge box sections 5 are among the facilities helping them make their way into and were fabricated from 1 ∕8-in. (40-mm) plate. Each T-section around Olympic Park. One particularly interesting and unusual consists of two 10¾-in.-wide, 1-in.-thick plates (275 mm by 25 bridge, known as L01 or the Ruckholt Road Bridge, combines mm) welded together. The deck is topped with a 4¼-in.-thick the mechanics of a tied arch with Vierendeel girder construction (110-mm), at minimum, concrete wearing course finished with to provide a highly efficient structure with a light and airy look. resin-bound aggregate surfacing and a waterproof coating. Newly constructed for the Games, the all-steel Bridge L01 is The original concept also had the arch member unconnected the primary northern gateway to the new Olympic Park. Elegant to the deck below deck level, but the long free length of the slender in both appearance and concept, it provides a pedestrian and cycling compression member proved unfeasible. A number of options for link from parking in the Northern Spectator Transport Mall, which restraining it were considered. The final solution: Continue the also is a key access point for coaches, taxis and disabled visitors. vertical slats below the deck to restrain the arch.
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